Explore 3969 historical events from 1990–1999.
Alberto Pedro Calderón was an Argentine mathematician. His name is associated with the University of Buenos Aires, but first and foremost with the University of Chicago, where Cald…
Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (born 1920)
Fred Davis was an English professional player of snooker and English billiards. He was an eight-time World Snooker Championship winner from 1948 to 1956, and a two-time winner of t…
Fred Davis, English snooker player (born 1913)
Marie-Louise Fébronie Meilleur was a Canadian supercentenarian. She is the oldest validated Canadian ever and upon the death of longevity world record holder Jeanne Calment, became…
Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian super-centenarian (born 1880)
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings that also feature…
Linda McCartney, American photographer, activist, and musician (born 1941)
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neusta…
Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)
Konstantinos G. Karamanlis was a Greek statesman who was the four-time Prime Minister of Greece and two-term president of the Third Hellenic Republic, serving in the former role fr…
Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, 172nd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1907)
Thanassis Skordalos was a musician from Crete, noted for playing the lyra, the bowed string instrument of Crete and most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra.
Thanassis Skordalos, Greek singer-songwriter and lyra player (born 1920)
Wright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as …
Wright Morris, American author and photographer (born 1910)
Anne Cécile Desclos was a French literary critic, journalist, and novelist who wrote under the pen names Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage. She is best known for her erotic novel St…
Anne Desclos, French journalist and author (born 1907)
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human b…
Jean-François Lyotard, French sociologist and philosopher (born 1924)
James Earl Ray was an American fugitive who was convicted of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. After the as…
James Earl Ray, American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-American writer, trained as an anthropologist. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe alleged training in shamanism t…
Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (born 1925)
Harris Browning 'Brownie' Ross is often referred to as the father of long-distance running in the United States.
Browning Ross, American runner and soldier (born 1924)
Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby was an American short story writer and scriptwriter. He wrote the 1953 story "It's a Good Life", which was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
Jerome Bixby, American author and screenwriter (born 1923)
Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani was a Syrian poet, diplomat, and publisher. Widely regarded as Syria’s national poet. Qabbani’s work is noted for its blend of simplicity and lyrical elegance,…
Nizar Qabbani, Syrian-English poet, publisher, and diplomat (born 1926)
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an African American writer and political activist, fashion designer, convicted rapist and an early leader of the Black Panther Party serving as Minister …
Eldridge Cleaver, American author and activist (born 1935)
Hideto Matsumoto , known professionally as Hide, was a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the rock …
hide, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1964)
Justinus Soni "Justin" Fashanu was an English footballer who played for a variety of clubs between 1978 and 1997. He was known by his early clubs to be gay, and came out publicly l…
Justin Fashanu, English footballer (born 1961)
Gene Raymond was an American film, television, and stage actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to acting, Raymond was also a singer, composer, screenwriter, director, producer,…
Gene Raymond, American actor (born 1908)
Christine Kurzhals was a German engineer and politician who served in the Bundestag from 1994 until her death in 1998. A member of the Social Democratic Party from Saxony, she was …
Christine Kurzhals, German politician (born 1950)
Allan MacLeod Cormack was a South African and American physicist, academic, and Nobel Laureate. He was Professor of Physics at Tufts University and won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Phys…
Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
Edward Thomas Rabbitt was an American country music singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing …
Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
Johannes Kotkas was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Estonia who won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He held the European title in 1938, 1939 and 1947 and placed s…
Johannes Kotkas, Estonian wrestler (born 1915)